Designing Elixir Systems with OTP/

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Strings

Strings

Let’s learn about the properties of different types of strings in Elixir.

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We’ve already covered one of our suggestions, to prefer strings for user-defined text and atoms for naming concepts in code. In this section, we’re going to dive a little deeper. Elixir’s strings have slightly different characteristics from maps or lists, and we should know about those subtle differences. Let’s talk a bit about these concepts. Elixir has the ...